German painter Neo Rauch’s current show at David Zwirner titled Heilstätten,  roughly translates to “a place of healing”. At the center of the show stands a bronze Athena-like figure, arm outstretched, carrying an owl, chest eerily buldging with the heads of men. The same woman, painted as a fountain at the center of a town square, is hidden in a much larger painting,  easily overlooked in the complex mapping of ochre walls, lavender coated men collapsing, and towering trees. The woman-with-owl motif presents itself a third time in one of the show’s largest painting titled Aprilnacht or April Night, where two figures, one male, one female, both hold and examine large ominous birds. Only his is a fragment, a lone head; hers is complete. Her hand, clothed in a green sleeve, five fingers outstretched with the quiet command with which a mother would hold a baby, is placed, curiously, at the dead center of the painting. Heilstätten will be on view until December 17 at David Zwirner Gallery, 525 W. 19 St., NYC.